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[clxii. 1] 1820 July 22 Emancipation
[clxii. 1]

1820 July 22

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Summary of a work, intituled Emancipate Your Colonies in a Letter from Philo-Hispanus to the Spanish People.

A well-wisher to mankind, who, otherwise than as such has no interest in the relations between Spain and Spanish America, has by a most attentive as well as impartial reflection been led to the persuasion that it is not against the interest of the Spanish Americans, but against the interests of the Spanish people, that the Spanish Americans or any of them should be subject to the dominion of the Spanish rulers. For the chance of producing the like persuasion in Spanish breasts he has written /he is occupied in putting the last hand to/ a more extensive tract under the above title.

The following short remarks may serve to present an anticipated view of it.
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